sand-martin

Another inhabitant of the banks is the sand-martin, which also likes company in the work of raising a family.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Only that morning, as we rode along, we saw several pairs of whinchats, any number of crested larks, some plover, pied and grey wagtails, starlings, and a sand-martin.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

We have in this country four different species of the swallow family which visit us every year; they come to us from Africa: these are the sand-martin, two specimens of which we have just seen, the swallow, the house-martin, and the swift.

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

The sand-martin, the house-martin's cousin, prefers the side of a cliff.

The Children's Book of London

The sand-martin is the smallest of the family; as the birds fly by us you notice that the back part is brown, or mouse colour; the under part white.

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

Of those birds whose nests were described last month the white-backed vulture, Pallas's fishing-eagle, the tawny eagle, the sand-martin and the black-necked stork are likely to be found with eggs or young in the present month.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

The nests of the kingfisher and the sand-martin have already been described, that of the bank-myna belongs to May rather than to April.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

For some unaccountable reason there was a patch of sand in that part of the country, delicious, bright, cheerful yellow and brown sand, lifting itself into little cliffs here and there, pierced with the holes of the sand-martin.

Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers Mark Rutherford 1872

All these architectural and sepulchral habits, these Egyptian manners of the sand-martin, digging caves in the sand, and border-trooper's habits of the chimney swallow, living in round towers instead of open air, belonging to them as connected with the tribe of the falcons through the owls! and not only so, but with the mammalia through the bats!

Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859

They were subject to a winter-sleep, like the European frog, lizard, sand-martin, and marmot.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851